secession

The beachfront community of La Jolla, one of the wealthiest and most spectacular areas of San Diego, wants to secede from the city as a whole, citing incompatible spending priorities and a desire for greater self-governance.

A West Texas County Commissioners’ Court called on the Legislature to put a secession question on the 2023 General Election ballot. The resolution passed Tuesday by Edwards County calls for Texas to secede from the U.S. and return to being an independent nation.

Left-wing Hollywood star Ron Perlman has given up on the United States, calling for secession in the form of a national divorce between red and blue states.

A Hong Kong District Court sentenced a man who dressed up as the comic book character “Captain America” to protest China’s encroachment on the city’s limited freedoms last year to nearly six years in prison on Thursday for violating Hong Kong’s national security law.

Five rural Oregon counties voted on Tuesday to secede from the state of Oregon and join the state of Idaho.

An article published on Wednesday in The Nation presents a thorough case for a “blue-state secession,” claiming it is “the only way to ensure democracy

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is compiling a “blacklist” of Taiwan independence activists who will face criminal prosecution by Chinese authorities for their efforts to protect the island’s democratic rule, Hong Kong-based newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported on Sunday.

A major donor who introduced 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at his first 2020 “grassroots fund-raiser” previously advocated for the South to secede so it could stop “dumbing down national politics.”

Americans support secession at a plurality of 39 percent, according to a Zogby poll. Among those polled, Democrats and black Americans favor it more than any other group.

Advocates for California’s secession from the Union are pushing a new “Calexit” plan — one that involves turning the inland, and more conservative, part of the state into a new Native American nation.

California Democrats are trying to convince voters to ignore the “Cal 3” initiative, which would create three separate states. But it may be a risky strategy.

“Cal 3,” a proposal to split California into three states will appear on the November 2018 ballot after gathering far more than the minimum number of signatures required, organizers announced Tuesday.

Activists who want California to secede from the nation may begin collecting signatures on a petition to put the question before voters in 2020, according to Secretary of State Alex Padilla.

The city council of Los Alamitos, in Orange Country, will vote Monday on whether to defy SB 54, the State of California’s “sanctuary state” law, which passed last year and went into effect January 1.

A group of activists declared “independence” for the state of “New California” on Monday, in an attempt to leave California’s liberal coastal enclaves and create a 51st U.S. state out of the remainder of the Golden State.

For the second time in less than a year, the CalExit effort in California will gather signatures for the right to secede from the United States.

The New York Times has published an extensive look at California’s “far north,” the group of conservative counties in the high Sierra country whose residents often feel alienated from state government, and where a movement to form a new “State of Jefferson” remains strong.

“Yes California,” or #CalExit, is now collecting signatures to qualify for the 2018 ballot. Have they considered the consequences?

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 32% of Californians back “Calexit” — the movement to secede from the Union and form an independent country.

The “CalExit” leftists who want California to secede from the Union now that President-elect Donald J. Trump is preparing to take office have a tough history to face: no effort to divide California, or to secede from the United States, has ever succeeded.

Left-wing Californians who want California to secede from the United States in the wake of the 2016 elections might be surprised to know their movement is supported by Russia and the administration of President Vladimir Putin.

On Monday, California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon rejected calls for national unity and urged Californians to “fight” — to resist the federal government and incoming President Donald Trump.

Kevin de Léon, the President Pro Tem of the California State Senate, used his address at the swearing-in of new members on Monday to attack President-elect Donald Trump — but also advised fellow Democrats against seceding from the Union.

California’s Marxist-progressive leadership has vowed to defy federal law and protect the millions of illegal aliens and welfare recipients to whom they owe their political power.

A group of left-wing Californians, frustrated with the recent election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States, has filed an application to put a secession referendum — “Calexit” — on the 2018 ballot.

A new poll reveals that if Hillary Clinton were to win the election in November, 40 percent of Texans would support seceding from the Union.

The hashtag #Texit was trending on Twitter the morning after the Brits voted to leave the European Union but secession and the Texas Nationalist Movement is nothing new. The president of one group says the only thing standing in the way is the Texas elected political class. He added, “They believe that the decision solely rests in their hands.”

Leaders of the community organizing group that has aligned with San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos to expand the controversial “sanctuary city” laws that prevent local law enforcement from communicating with federal immigration enforcement agencies actually have an even more dangerous and bizarre agenda: enabling Chicanos to secede from the United States and form their own nation state in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

The Lone Star State has taken one more step towards Texas Independence. A resolution has passed a platform committee at the Texas GOP Convention and is now expected to go to a vote before all of the delegates.

The Lake County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday to remove prior support for a 2016 “State of Jefferson” ballot measure.

A resolution that would have put Texas secession on the ballot for Republican primary voters has failed. Although the measure cleared its first hurdle by passing the 12-member Republican Party of Texas’ Resolution Committee, it failed soundly when submitted to the entire body of the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC).

A resolution that would put Texas secession on the ballot for Republican primary voters has cleared its first hurdle by passing the Republican Party of Texas’ Resolution Committee. The committee met during a regular meeting of the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC).

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper’s ballot initiative, Six Californias, which would require California to split into six separate states, will not be on the 2016 ballot.